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Kiersa is 20 months and is really starting to communicate well and be one of the big kids.

-She'll bring a book to me and say, "Read it!" She LOVES books!
-She finishes the lines on all the books I read her regularly.
-She can easily count to 10.
-She can sing her ABCs, with assistance.
-She can sing all the bedtime songs I sing her.
-She tattles all the time, on everyone. She's my personal informant. She'll come tell me that someone is being "rude", "mean", or "naughty". When I ask who is being that way to her, she'll name the person and point.
-She no longer calls all animals "Cowboy". She'll say their name instead. She finally calls "Indian" by her name rather than calling her Cowboy.
-She commands the dogs to "sit" or go to their "kennel".
-She is very competitive, so I can get her to eat something if I threaten that I'll give it to her siblings instead, and she'll potty on the toilet if she sees Tilly and Hyatt do it and get a prize afterward. She's very prize oriented.
-She repeats the last word everyone says.
-She loves to squish my cheeks and say "chubby" so I'll tell her the chubby story.
-If anyone is naked around her, or even partly undressed, she sings, "na-ked noo-noo!"
-When she rides something like a horse (your back or the arm of a chair), she yells, "Cow-boy Ba-by!" (Like the Kid Rock song.)
-She understands everything you say and ask and really concentrates and tries hard to answer you, even if you can't understand what she's saying.
-When she gets hurt, she scolds what hurts her. Such as: If she falls and bonks her head, she'll cry, tell me her head hurts, and then point to the floor and say "naughty...floor...head...hurt...no no floor!" She's getting good at forming sentences.
-She recognizes possession. If I put a shoe on her that used to belong to Hyatt, she's look at me all confused and say, "Hyatt's!" She puts the plural "s" on words too now.
-She notices people's emotions, especially when they're sad. She says, "Sad...cry" anytime someone is crying or sad.